This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Steve Weber, Ph.D., is a professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, where he is the Director of the Institute of International Studies. He is also the author of the book, "The Success of Open Source." But for the purposes of the Digital Tipping Point film and library, he is the thinker who came up with one of the key concepts upon which the DTP is based: the idea of "anti-rival goods," a term he coined in his ground-breaking "Success of Open Source" book.

Of all the bright minds who have sat for DTP interviews, none does a better job of explaining why Free Open Source Software is so different from anything that humans have done before. Unlike rival goods, such as a chocolate cake, which decreases in supply the more it is consumed, Free Open Source Software increases in supply the more it is consumed. If there are 10 pieces of chocolate cake, but 11 people at a party, one person will not get cake, or will have to take part of someone else's cake.

Free Open Source Software is the opposite. Steve Weber tells us why.

This video was shot a bit dark, and will have to be re-rendered for final use. Remember, this video is our raw "source code." Everyone will want to use it in different ways.

In this particular segment, Steve Weber says [...summary needed].

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